To wrap up: Upon arriving at the conference, I got a sense of rote, habitual behavior about it. “Sigh — Ahmadinejad again. Let’s hold another counter-conference, so they don’t think we’re growing weary of it all.”

Couldn’t be further from the truth, as it unspooled through the afternoon. Be confident that the face of your cause here is the most determined, studied, driven group of leaders you could hope for at this time of farce across the street. This is a tireless, eloquent group, and the Durban folks, already waning in influence considering their poor international PR for their conference, can never match it. Not the energy, nor the unity of message.

5:30 p.m. — Syria is now addressing Durban. No need for comment.

Huckabee, in a great contrast, is at the same moment discussing his frequent visits to Oskar Schindler’s grave with the tours he goes on. He points out that Schindler was a scoundrel in his private life, but his grave has the most rocks placed on it, because his faith was more evident by the things he did saving the Jews. He did great things, while others who are rather pious don’t take the risks he did.

5:20 p.m. — Huckabee has the best tie of the day. Masculine, yet pink.

He’s giving the “What if Canada shot Katyushas at the U.S.” analogy. “We cannot ask other nations to tolerate what we would be unwilling to tolerate.”

The room just went silent at the mention of the Fogel family, slaughtered with knives in the West Bank.

“If what Israel does is racism, we need more racism.”

Suck it, Olmert: “Jerusalem must remain undivided … so it can remain a city where people can go and worship whoever they may be.” The point being, A Jerusalem divided is soon Judenrein. And Christianrein.

He calls for an acceleration of construction in the West Bank — it draws a standing O, the biggest applause of the day.

5:16 p.m. — It’s hot in here, everyone’s tired, but the attention span of the crowd isn’t waning in the slightest. Just more repositioning in our seats, rolled up sleeves, etc. This is a serious, dedicated crowd, and I’m heartened having heard these leaders and knowing we have a strong crop fighting the UN at this pivotal time.

5:10 p.m. — Huckabee.

For the first time all day we hear the word “Obama.” Honestly, I don’t think anyone here even noticed the absence of talk about him, and I’m taking that as a sign that Obama’s relevance to the Jewish community is simply on the wane. Huckabee just mentioned NY-9 and its relevance to Obama’s treatment of Israel, to great applause.

Obama has been an afterthought here, and possibly at Durban as well.

5:02 p.m. — “Only at the UN could rearranging an acronym be considered major reform.” He’ll be here all week.

On an irrelevant sidenote, I often get my son to fall asleep at night by humming “O Canada.” I don’t know the words.

4:56 p.m. — Just noticed that Kenney’s title is Minister of Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism.

I assume Kenney takes issue with his title, judging from his talk — he’d trim that M-word.

“Zionism is philanthropy, a belief in helping others, a belief in freedom.” When Voight speaks, he gets this reverb in his voice like he’s got a subwoofer hidden in his pants. I would pay to hear him read the legal exceptions on my Roomba warranty. Anything. It’s really cool.

4:41 p.m. — “If Simon can survive what he went through, and come here and speak this truth … all will be well.”

4:33 p.m. — His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Abdellahi Ould Khatra, Commissioner for Human Rights from Mauritania, is now educating Durban III on the problems of tribalism, water scarcity, and some Jewess he knows named Shana.

4:32 p.m. — “I have been to Israel five times visiting Sudanese refugees … they had hoped to find refuge in Egypt. They were wrong … they realized that the Arab racism was the same, whether Khartoum or Cairo. … They looked for a different refuge, they found it in Israel.”

“They said that compared to Egypt, Israel was heaven to them.”

4:30 p.m. — “Khartoum declared jihad on my people. … We believe that up to 200,000 were abducted and sold into slavery.”

“I was a slave for 3 and a half years.”

4:20 p.m. – Simon Deng is speaking now. From his Wiki:

“… I was a slave. … When I was nine year’s old, my village was raided by Arab troops in the pay of Khartoum. As we ran into the bush to escape I watched as childhood friends were shot dead and the old and the weak who were unable to run were burned alive in their huts. I was abducted and given to an Arab family as a “gift”.

He is speaking about how the Palestinians are hijacking the international human rights issue, while his people are actually suffering, dying, at the hands of Islamists.

4:11 p.m. — Murray just pointed out that Ahmadinejad opened his speech with an exhortation to hasten the arrival of the 12th Imam, and how that would be front page horror at the NYT if Bush had started a speech with religious talk. But when an Islamist does it — and to a genocidal messiah, no less — no one notices.

(I did though! Scroll down.)

Meanwhile, over at Durban III, Ecuador is very concerned about racism, poverty, and also Jews.

4:05 p.m. — “At Durban, the countries that were first to abolish slavery are now getting attacked by the countries that are still practicing slavery.”

“In the last 20 years, the life expectancy in Zimbabwe has dropped by a third.” Just because of Mugabe. I didnt know that.

4:00 p.m. — Douglas Murray is the British Dave Barry. Watch the PJTV feed when you get a chance. He just referred to “Idi Amin, the wife-eater.”

3:56 p.m. — Douglas Murray: ” I picked up the NYT this morning … actually, the hotel gave it to me. That’s the only reason I have it.” Heh.

“Every day, the UN maintains this fiction that all states and all governments are essentially equal.”

3:45 p.m. — “We need to create a narrative that is not poetic, but literal … that the problem in the Middle East is not white supremacy, but the end of white supremacy.”

He’s addressing a psychological bent here, which we haven’t heard yet today: the problem of a newly freed man having to address his condition at the bottom of the totem pole. When freedom doesn’t bring prosperity, people choose to readopt the narrative of victimhood rather than address their difficulties and failures.

While it’s just a contributing factor — obviously, as all the Islamists across the street are bloody wealthy — I’m glad that Steele is bringing this up. Switch over to the Durban livestream to hear how dead on he is about the narratives.

“We have done a poor job to offer a narrative to combat the narrative on the other side.” That might be the first criticism towards this side of the aisle here, I’m curious where he goes with this.

“Racism no longer prevents to forward progress of blacks in the U.S. Yet it remains the centerpiece of what we talk about regarding this country.”

“Racism is about the 25th thing on the list of things affecting blacks today.”

“Who would the Palestinians be if they weren’t the supposed victims of white supremacy? They would just be poor people. It’s the source of their self-esteem. … The idea that the problem is Israel protects them from having to confront their societal inferiority.”

I like Shelby Steele.

3:20 p.m. — Further, the International Olympic Committee will be speaking at Durban today, to discuss how the scourge of Zionism affects the greater luge community.

Representing the IOC will be a man named Mr. Sithole.

3:10 p.m. — Roger looks to be grabbing a few words with Zuhdi Jasser and perhaps Shelby Steele and Ruth Wisse. Again, if you have a chance to listen to Ms. Wisse sometime, it will be time well-spent.

Liechtenstein has a population of 35,000, is primarily Catholic, and is apparently terribly concerned with the danger of an encroaching Zionist regime.

2:42 p.m. — Coffee break, PJTV off to grab some interviews.

2:37 p.m. — So Jesse Jackson is sitting with the South African delegation, as a stream of South African reps take to the microphone. Not sure why he’s sitting there, but pleased he couldn’t attend as a U.S. representative.

2:24 p.m. — Harvard Professor Ruth Wisse: “Durban III is the time to ask whether the remedy of the United Nations is worse than the condition it came to cure.” (Note to self: ask Ruth Wisse to get on PJM. Watch her on PJTV now — this is a public speaker.)

“Hitler had to quit the League of Nations to carry out his intentions. Not so with the Islamist countries and the UN.” Well, there’s your answer to Wisse’s question.

Actually, now that I’ve settled down from the shock, I don’t know why I was so surprised he was attending. I suppose it’s not the discovery that he might feel sympathy for such views — we knew that — but that he would be so careless as to walk into such a publicity nightmare.

2:10 p.m. — Zuhdi Jasser slams the Dalai Lama! I did not see that sentence coming when I woke this morning. The Dalai Lama was apparently a signer of a statement equating criticism of religion with hate speech.

He states that there are in fact groups in Islamist countries holding signs clamoring for separation of mosque and state, but they do not garner respect at the UN because they are bereft of petrodollars.

“I’m offended that Durban III is taking place near Ground Zero.”

1:55 p.m. — “Every other person I meet in the West Bank says their dream is to become an Israeli citizen and move to Israel. It’s not because they’re Zionists, but because they are not stupid.”

“Every morning I say ‘Thank G-d I am an Israeli citizen.’”

“Sometimes I feel safer talking to members of Fatah and Hamas then I do on a U.S. university campus.” He isn’t kidding, he needs security detail when he speaks here.

1:45 p.m. — “When I try to alert my fellow journalists to the presence of monetary corruption in the P.A. my colleagues ask: Are you being paid by the Jewish lobby? … Others tell me: How can we report negatively on the PA, and return to Ramallah safely?”

He says: “If you guys are afraid to cover a conflict, what are you doing here covering a conflict? Go home and cover sports.” Heh.

“These stories play into the hands of Jews”, he was told by diplomats and foreign media.

He relays a story of making up ridiculous anti-Israel stories, just to see if foreign media will try to cover it. They do.

1:40 p.m. — Khaled Abu Toameh takes the stage, and I realize that for the past half hour, I’ve been sitting next to Khaled Abu-Toameh.

1:35 p.m. — A round of applause for her call for the UN to protect Muslim women from honor killing. “What has the UN done to stop this appalling trend? Mr. Ban Ki Moon, we take notice and we are outraged.”

1:30 p.m. — Sultan: The UN must return to its objectives. It has neglected them under pressure from Islamist countries.

1:25 p.m. — Sultan: When I emigrated from Syria, I never thought I would be in the position of having to defend Israel from within the United States.

She’s detailing her miseducation at the hands of Syria’s schools and government. “Killing Jews was always presented to me and my classmates as a religious obligation.” ” When planted in the mind of a child, this hatred generates … death.”

“Durban III teaches the same sentiments with which my mind was poisoned.” Never heard her speak before, she really is excellent in person. The room has gotten silent, very respectful.

1:19 p.m. — “Kudos to those who walked out, but why were they there in the first place?”

Wafa Sultan is up now, I believe we are streaming again.

1:17 p.m. — “I know that this is interesting, but I have a copy of his speech, and it doesnt get any better.” He’s been pulled, we’re restarting the conference.

1:16 p.m. — They threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust with sanctions and military actions. Wait, what?

1:16 p.m. — If I close my eyes, I would have absolutely no means of knowing if this was Ahmadinejad or Michael Moore.

1:15 p.m. — I still haven’t heard the words “United States”. He’s such a tease.

1:15 p.m. — Looks like the first members of the General Assembly are walking out, to a round of applause. Actually looks like a good percentage of the room is up and leaving, a promising sign.

Venezuela is pleased to have the extra leg room.

1:10 p.m. — Mercifully, our feed is down.

Back up.

1:05 p.m. — “Who is the government that threatens all other nations with any excuse?” I think he means the U.S. This sounds like a guy who might be susceptible to a bit of “smart diplomacy”, no?

1:01 p.m. — Zionists are responsible for slavery, both world wars, the war in Korea, and mass murder in the Palestinian territories.

The West’s economy is based on wars or something. He does look a bit like Kucinich…

1:00 p.m. — He is terribly concerned about world poverty — he using the 20% have most of the resources, while 80% have very little, etc. This isn’t terribly different from what we hear from John Kerry. It’s this kind of talk that gets you a dinner at Columbia U.

12:56 p.m. — He’s doing his disjointed religious yapping, as he is wont to do. While this appears to be filler from an Islamist, it’s not so — his words are direct exhortations to support his 12th Imam cult.

12:53 p.m. — “His Excellency.”

Allah has been praised. He begins by asking for a hastening of the arrival of the Mahdi. Note the Mahdi is supposed to arrive following the destruction of Israel.

12:45 p.m — It appears we will be holding off restarting our conference so we can listen to a live feed from Ahmadinejad. “Feel free to go get a cup of tea” if you’re not interested, we are told, as this will not be a pleasant thing to listen to.

12:11 p.m. — Claudia Rosett has joined us, watching the live feed from the Durban III roundtables across the street. A lovely, heartwarming speech from Iran’s Foreign Minister, during which I believe he accused Israel of disseminating racist literature or something.

12:01 p.m. — Breaking for lunch, word is that Ahmadinejad is about to speak across the street.

12:00 p.m. — Israel must not agree to internationalization of its security.” Bravo.

Gold releases a never before seen satellite photo of the area below the Litani, marking which structures are Hezbollah. It’s a fascinating picture, will try to get this on the site here.

11:45 a.m. — Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, speaking about Resolution 1701 which followed the recent Israel Lebanon war. The area beneath the Litani River was supposed to be demilitarized according to the Resolution, instead Hezbollah has tripled it’s rockets in the area. “This is exactly what Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip looked like before they began their rocket attacks.”

“What can Israel do? Find ways of separating the military equipment from the civilian population,” as Israel did with Gaza by warning residents prior to attacking sites.

“Ehud Olmert today mentioned in the NY Times that Israel should withdraw from the West Bank, and cede religious sites to international sovereignty, including Saudi Arabia… Sorry, Ehud, you’re not Prime Minister anymore.” ” Israel needs to be responsible for it’s own defense.”

11:30 a.m. — Ed Koch: “Durban III is a big flop … they have failed in their PR front.”

Again: ” … every house has a cesspool.”

Whoa — Koch just gave a line that essentially boiled down to: “Drill, Baby, drill”. This is a Dem?

11:15a.m. — Following a stirring speech from Israeli Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuri Edelstein, the conference attendees were informed of the latest from the General Assembly: the UN voted to move up the adoption of the Durban statement on racism this morning, and the country asking for the schedule change was … Sudan.

I agree. They should be required viewing and I have emailed a few people to tell them about these videos. Unfortunately, it would seem that all but a few have disappeared from the website. Or are we looking in the wrong place?

The so-called “Palestinians” are mostly (children or grandchildren of) Arab immigration into Israel/Palestine (historic land of the Jews). Mainly, since the 1800s.

AIM

Arab Muslim “Palestinians” & Hezbollah, like the Arab leaders in the 1948 and 1967 wars, seek its destruction and advocate the genocide of Jews. [Those that cover for Arabists/Islamists genocidal campaign, somehow often phrase their argument using the "peace" slogan, for some reason].
When not able [yet] to carry out their ultimate goal. Ethnic cleansing [worse than mere apartheid] is “at least” what they demand in a so-called “Palestine State” vision. As in: June 1, 1967 by Ahmad Shukairy; in Cairo on July 28, 2010 & in Doha on May 28 2011 by Mahmoud Abbas and in Washington D.C. on Sep. 13, 2011 by PLO’s ambassador Maen Areikat. Not to mention Jordan / Palestinian Authority’s official apartheid laws prohibiting sellling land to Jews – punishable by death].

PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT

Simply said. Israel has absolutely nothing against non-Terrorist, non-attackers Arabs/Muslims. In fact, Arabs, Muslims are [not only equal and have reached high positions in Israeli society, but] even often treated with preferential treatment in Israel system.

“CIVILIANS”

Any time you hear about “Palestinian civilians” being hurt. Remember who is behind it, who -so cruelly- uses them to tarnish Israel’s image. [The same goes to Hezbollah, Taliban or al-Qaeda's tactics against the West].

DAVID VS GOLIATH

The one that hesitates and is in conflict of acting when seeing human shields is the small “David” against the “Goliath” that exploits Israel’s humane character to hit at its non-combatants civilians from among / or behind its own non-combatants.[Unfortunately the skewed image of who is the real powerful, causes confusion and anti-Israel bias, so rampant in the media].

ISRAEL’S GOODWILL

Every goodwill sacrifice by Israel, including land-giving (to the ‘Palestinians” who never actually “owned” or had any sovereignty in the area. So much for the “occupation” myth). Were/are interpreted as “weakness.”[The Gaza example is typical. Where Israel gave it away to the Arabs in 2005. The 'response' was rise of Islamic-terrorist Hamas' popularity in Gaza's mainstream].

BEGINNING: 1920′S – MUFTI – “CREATOR” OF THE CONFLICT

Arab-Islamic racist and jihad campaign against Jews in the area dates back at least to the 1920s. Led by the Arab-Islamic anti-Jewish arch-bigot the Mufti, al-Husseini. Such as the 1929 brutal massacre, mass rape, mutilation of babies, and castration of old people in Hebron. He who later on made a pact with A. Hitler and led the Muslim SS divisions to commit crimes against humanity upon Christians and Jews in the Baltic. He intervened in rescuing Jewish children from E. Europe – thereby causing their mass deaths. He was also behind the incitement of the 1941 Farhud pogrom in Iraq. The Mufti called for a Jihad against: Britain and the Jews. His ally, Jamal Husseini very active in Arab leadership and in the Arab Nazi cooperation, founded a Hitler-Youth type of young Arabs [Arab Nazi Party].The ‘founding’ of the conflict that early on, tells also about the true motivation of it all: bigotry.

AHMAD SHUKAIRY

The demonization of Israel in international arena, [including the bigoted "apartheid slur." A tactic with 3 goals in mind: 1. Diversion from rampant Arab Islamic apartheid and racism on all minorities, (including Islamic "Palestinian" anti-Christian persecution and Arab nations' anti-Arab-Palestinian policies ever since they have been told by their leaders to evacuate the area in 1948. And the Arab racist expulsion of nearly a Million Jewish refugees in the 1940s-1950s), oppression and crimes against its own people, 2. Hatred of the non-Arab, non-Muslim group, the Jews. 3. Rationalization of the genocide campaign], began in the early 1960s by the aide and henchman of the Nazi Mufti, Ahmad Shukairy, who, in 1962 identified himself with Nazi groups and in June 1967 called for a “holy war” jihad against Israel and to “Throw the Jews into the sea.” He was the first PLO chairman. Worth mentioning, while in 1957 he recognized that “Palestine” is but a part of Southern

Syria, he changed 360 degrees in 1963 to go along the invention of a separate ‘Palestinian entity.

PALLYWOOD

You can never trust what comes out from an Arab “Palestinian” (or Hezbollah) source. After so many years and experiences of intentional lies, disinformation and even falsified images (including ‘Muhammad al-Dura,’ Jenin, Gaza beach family, etc.).

CONTINUOUS JEWISH PRESENT

Not only did Jews reside [in the area] centuries before the Arab invasion, but Jews never ceased completely from having a presence in Israel – Palestine.